Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

This one is a pretty easy hack to install. It shows any spiders that are indexing your site in the what's going on box on the forum home page. Please note. It will only show spiders as spiders and not as guests if it also shows them as spiders and not as guests on online.php.

This hack has been tested on 3.0.6 and 3.0.7.

It's not hard to install, but it does have one drawback. If you have a portal page that shows online users, you will have to edit it yourself to incorporate the changes. Consider yourself warned.

At this point, any problems reported are installation errors. If things don't work for you, make sure you have completed all the steps as written.

As I have upgraded to 3.5, I am withdrawing support for this older version. All the bugs are gone and any issues are now installation errors.

FAQ
1. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on my portal page.
As noted above, because of the large number of portals, you're on your own for integrating them into thie hack.

2. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on other pages.
1. Make sure you have done all of the code changes correctly.
2. Make sure you have updated your style to use the modified templates. If not, that error will occor.

German Translation provided by General. It can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=230

Here is the Advanced CMPS module that y'all have been clamoring for:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82339


Amy

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Twigz

Thanks Amy for the Quick help and Fix.. Great Hack and Keep up the Good work.

No problem

[BocaDev]

Amy this hack its great and no problems with the install. Keep up the good work.

Again many thanks

[nathanaus]

Originally Posted by BocaDev

Amy this hack its great and no problems with the install. Keep up the good work.

Again many thanks

Yep I agree, great hack Amy! You da man! errr woman!

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by amykhar

For Boofo's change that only shows the numbers if more than one spider is around (and shame on him for telling you that he did it without telling you how to do it if you want as well )

In index.php Find:

$loggedin['musername'] = key($spiderlist) . "(" . $spidername.")";

Replace with:

if ($spidername > 1) {
	 $loggedin['musername'] = key($spiderlist) . "(" . $spidername.")";
	 }
	 else 
	 {
	 $loggedin['musername'] = key($spiderlist);
	 }

I was going to post the code but I didn't want to step on any toes doing it.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Mone'

heheh
how are you boofo? long time no see you

Doing ok.

Where have you been? You know where I am at. Stop by and say hello.

[VAN]

Works great! Thanks!

Now how 'bout updating it to work with Forumdisplay and Showthread.

[Crank]

i have installed the hack and am still showing 200+ guest on my site. it shows 1 spider and list google. i have been adding some other spiders to the board list in the vb options. although im not sure if everything is working correctly

[amykhar]

I can't verify if things are working or not Crank because you don't have your forums listed in your profile page. To verify any problems I need the url and also need your online.php to be visible to guests.

Amy

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by VAN

Works great! Thanks!

Now how 'bout updating it to work with Forumdisplay and Showthread.

Maybe.

[kall]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Maybe.

Woohoo!

Ow. Yahoo is a-visiting.

Currently Active Users: 460 (2 members and 12 guests and 446 search engine spiders)